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News
UCSC and King's College
London have teamed up
with the Exploratorium
museum in San Francisco in
a project to improve science
teaching and learning. See
page 3.
Calendar
Pianist Awadagin Pratt, part
of the newest generation
of international classical
virtuosos, performs Saturday,
November 3, at the Music
Center Recital Hall. See
page 4.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ
Digest
UCSC's mascot recently
attracted the interest of a
Japanese television news
crew doing a story about
slugs. Cameras rolled as
students modeled slug
t-shirts. See page 6.
Vol. 12, No. 2
Published monthly by University Relations for the campus community
November 1, 2001
'Race and the Crisis' talk draws overflow crowd
By Jennifer McNulty
T he specter of internment
I looms large for Muslims in the
United States. That grim as-
I sessment underscored a
I public discussion of "Race and
the Crisis" October 17 that
attracted an overflow crowd of
nearly 500 people.
UCSC faculty members Angela
Davis and Manuel Pastor were
joined by Muslim community activist Maha ElGenaidi for the event
at Holy Cross Parish Hall.
"I feel more insecure than ever
living in rhe United States," said
ElGenaidi, founder and executive
direcror of rhe nonprofir Islamic
Networks Group in Santa Clara
County, which teaches about Islam
in schools, corporations, hospitals,
and law-enforcement agencies.
"I believe Muslims in this
country are generally reviled by
most Americans," she said. "There
is widespread ignorance of Islam
Maha ElGenaidi and Manuel Pastor participated in the panel discussion.
in the United States and throughout the Christian world."
ElGenaidi fears Muslims could
be interned as Japanese Americans
were following the attack on Pearl
Harbor. But she also reported feeling encouraged that Muslims in
the United States are responding
to the current crisis by building
coalitions, doing outreach, "trying
our our polirical muscles," and
working with law enforcement.
"We are tackling the issue of
See Crisis, back page
After September ii: A campus resource page includes
information on related activities, issues, and support
services: currents.ucsc.edul'terrorist_crisis
Chancellor calls for more research,
fundraising; boost in grad students
By Louise Donahue
n an address to the campus
community last month,
Chancellor
Greenwood
took a look back
before laying out
her vision for
UCSC's future—
a future with significantly more graduate students and
increases in re- a
search, fund-raising,!
and diversity. 5
Reflecting on Chancellor
the terrorist attacks
of September 11, Greenwood
said the nation's great research
universities—including
UCSC—will play "a pivotal
role" in the nation's response.
Greenwood
She lauded Student Affairs
staffers for welcoming students
to campus during a time of crisis and cited the helpful commentary in media
outlets by the
many UCSC faculty members who
have shared their
expertise. "Our
universities need
to play an ever-
larger role in combating ignorance,"
she said in an
address before a
capacity crowd at
Stevenson Dining
Hall on October 2.
"There is no better place to
be in the days to come than in
one of the nation's best research
See Chancellor, back page
Daily horrors of Jim Crow era
recorded in oral history project
Conference looks at women's roles in early film industry
By Jennifer McNuity
For historians, few projects
offer the professional or
personal satisfaction that
comes with gathering and
preserving little-known
srories. And so Paul Ortiz, an
assistant professor of community studies, feels particularly
honored to have been part of a
major project to record the oral
histories of African Americans
who lived under Jim Crow in
the segregated South.
The highlights of those oral
histories have been compiled in
the new book Remembering Jim
Crow: African Americans Tell
about Life in the Segregated South
(New York: New Press, 2001).
The book, illustrated with
50 rare segregation-era photographs, is accompanied by two
CDs: One contains excerpts of
tin tingm.il interviews, and the
second is a major radio documentary produced by American
RadioWorks that will air on
Remembering Jim Crow includes
rare photographs and two CDs.
many National Public Radio
stations on November 13-
The book's firsthand accounts of living under Jim
Crow convey the hardship and
suffering experienced by
African Americans in the
United States from the end of
the 19th century into the
1960s.
Participants describe the
Jini Crow,
By John Newman
omen played a remarkable
role in the early film industry, enjoying degrees of creative control that remain unparalleled even today. As
directors, screenwriters, and actors, they helped shape the contours of cinematic language in the
early 20th century.
Two evening screenings will
celebrate the work of key silent
film pioneers, bringing these films
to life with new scores by contemporary female composers and thus
celebrating women's artistic collaborations across eras.
The screenings will be held in
conjunction with a major international gathering of silent film
scholars at UCSC, the first of its
kind in the United States,
organized by Professors Amelie
Hastie and Shelley Stamp of
UCSC's Department of Film and
Digital Media.
Germaine Dulac's The Smiling
Madame Beudet will be screened
Friday, November 2, at the Music
Center Recital Hall, at 8 p.m. The
Smiling Madame Beudet is one of
the outstanding achievements of
Star Lillian Gish, playing director here, was one of many women who had an impact on
silent films. Two such films will be screened as part of a conference at UCSC.
1920s French cinema. Its daring
exploration of cinematic language
and its bold feminist perspective
make it a touchstone for all those
interested in silent film.
A fully restored prinr, unique
in the United States and on loan
from Yale University, will be
shown. The New Music
Ensemble, under Nicole
Paiement's direction, will perform
the world premiere of a new score
by Bay Area composer Carolyn
Yarnell, commissioned especially
for this event. Yarnell's compositions have been performed
throughout the country at Aspen,
Tanglewood, and elsewhere. This
is her first film score.
The Smiling Madame Beudet will
be accompanied by two comic
shorts, Algie the Miner and
Hallroom Girls, directed by Alice
Guy Blache and Lois Weber, the
two earliest female filmmakers in
See Women, back page

News
UCSC and King's College
London have teamed up
with the Exploratorium
museum in San Francisco in
a project to improve science
teaching and learning. See
page 3.
Calendar
Pianist Awadagin Pratt, part
of the newest generation
of international classical
virtuosos, performs Saturday,
November 3, at the Music
Center Recital Hall. See
page 4.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ
Digest
UCSC's mascot recently
attracted the interest of a
Japanese television news
crew doing a story about
slugs. Cameras rolled as
students modeled slug
t-shirts. See page 6.
Vol. 12, No. 2
Published monthly by University Relations for the campus community
November 1, 2001
'Race and the Crisis' talk draws overflow crowd
By Jennifer McNulty
T he specter of internment
I looms large for Muslims in the
United States. That grim as-
I sessment underscored a
I public discussion of "Race and
the Crisis" October 17 that
attracted an overflow crowd of
nearly 500 people.
UCSC faculty members Angela
Davis and Manuel Pastor were
joined by Muslim community activist Maha ElGenaidi for the event
at Holy Cross Parish Hall.
"I feel more insecure than ever
living in rhe United States," said
ElGenaidi, founder and executive
direcror of rhe nonprofir Islamic
Networks Group in Santa Clara
County, which teaches about Islam
in schools, corporations, hospitals,
and law-enforcement agencies.
"I believe Muslims in this
country are generally reviled by
most Americans," she said. "There
is widespread ignorance of Islam
Maha ElGenaidi and Manuel Pastor participated in the panel discussion.
in the United States and throughout the Christian world."
ElGenaidi fears Muslims could
be interned as Japanese Americans
were following the attack on Pearl
Harbor. But she also reported feeling encouraged that Muslims in
the United States are responding
to the current crisis by building
coalitions, doing outreach, "trying
our our polirical muscles," and
working with law enforcement.
"We are tackling the issue of
See Crisis, back page
After September ii: A campus resource page includes
information on related activities, issues, and support
services: currents.ucsc.edul'terrorist_crisis
Chancellor calls for more research,
fundraising; boost in grad students
By Louise Donahue
n an address to the campus
community last month,
Chancellor
Greenwood
took a look back
before laying out
her vision for
UCSC's future—
a future with significantly more graduate students and
increases in re- a
search, fund-raising,!
and diversity. 5
Reflecting on Chancellor
the terrorist attacks
of September 11, Greenwood
said the nation's great research
universities—including
UCSC—will play "a pivotal
role" in the nation's response.
Greenwood
She lauded Student Affairs
staffers for welcoming students
to campus during a time of crisis and cited the helpful commentary in media
outlets by the
many UCSC faculty members who
have shared their
expertise. "Our
universities need
to play an ever-
larger role in combating ignorance,"
she said in an
address before a
capacity crowd at
Stevenson Dining
Hall on October 2.
"There is no better place to
be in the days to come than in
one of the nation's best research
See Chancellor, back page
Daily horrors of Jim Crow era
recorded in oral history project
Conference looks at women's roles in early film industry
By Jennifer McNuity
For historians, few projects
offer the professional or
personal satisfaction that
comes with gathering and
preserving little-known
srories. And so Paul Ortiz, an
assistant professor of community studies, feels particularly
honored to have been part of a
major project to record the oral
histories of African Americans
who lived under Jim Crow in
the segregated South.
The highlights of those oral
histories have been compiled in
the new book Remembering Jim
Crow: African Americans Tell
about Life in the Segregated South
(New York: New Press, 2001).
The book, illustrated with
50 rare segregation-era photographs, is accompanied by two
CDs: One contains excerpts of
tin tingm.il interviews, and the
second is a major radio documentary produced by American
RadioWorks that will air on
Remembering Jim Crow includes
rare photographs and two CDs.
many National Public Radio
stations on November 13-
The book's firsthand accounts of living under Jim
Crow convey the hardship and
suffering experienced by
African Americans in the
United States from the end of
the 19th century into the
1960s.
Participants describe the
Jini Crow,
By John Newman
omen played a remarkable
role in the early film industry, enjoying degrees of creative control that remain unparalleled even today. As
directors, screenwriters, and actors, they helped shape the contours of cinematic language in the
early 20th century.
Two evening screenings will
celebrate the work of key silent
film pioneers, bringing these films
to life with new scores by contemporary female composers and thus
celebrating women's artistic collaborations across eras.
The screenings will be held in
conjunction with a major international gathering of silent film
scholars at UCSC, the first of its
kind in the United States,
organized by Professors Amelie
Hastie and Shelley Stamp of
UCSC's Department of Film and
Digital Media.
Germaine Dulac's The Smiling
Madame Beudet will be screened
Friday, November 2, at the Music
Center Recital Hall, at 8 p.m. The
Smiling Madame Beudet is one of
the outstanding achievements of
Star Lillian Gish, playing director here, was one of many women who had an impact on
silent films. Two such films will be screened as part of a conference at UCSC.
1920s French cinema. Its daring
exploration of cinematic language
and its bold feminist perspective
make it a touchstone for all those
interested in silent film.
A fully restored prinr, unique
in the United States and on loan
from Yale University, will be
shown. The New Music
Ensemble, under Nicole
Paiement's direction, will perform
the world premiere of a new score
by Bay Area composer Carolyn
Yarnell, commissioned especially
for this event. Yarnell's compositions have been performed
throughout the country at Aspen,
Tanglewood, and elsewhere. This
is her first film score.
The Smiling Madame Beudet will
be accompanied by two comic
shorts, Algie the Miner and
Hallroom Girls, directed by Alice
Guy Blache and Lois Weber, the
two earliest female filmmakers in
See Women, back page